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===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||
1) Numerals are treated | 1) Numerals are treated as nominals. | ||
2) The numeral system is hybrid vigesimal-decimal | 2) The numeral system is hybrid vigesimal-decimal | ||
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3) The thurse language families of Western Europe and Basque, while otherwise unrelated, share the same set of basic numerals. | 3) The thurse language families of Western Europe and Basque, while otherwise unrelated, share the same set of basic numerals. | ||
4) The cardinal numerals are as follows (reconstructed forms of | 4) The cardinal numerals are as follows (reconstructed forms of Western Palaeo-European Numerals in parentheses): | ||
vaþe = 1 (*bade) | vaþe = 1 (*bade) | ||
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vaþerassu = 9 (*baderatsu) | vaþerassu = 9 (*baderatsu) | ||
tamvan = 10 (*tanbar) | |||
tamvaþe = 11 | tamvaþe = 11 | ||
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tarrassi = 18 | tarrassi = 18 | ||
tamvaþerassu = 19 | |||
paje = 20 (* | paje = 20 (*pogai) | ||
mihapaje = 40 | |||
kirumpaje = 60 | |||
lawampaje = 80 | |||
qekum = 100 (*ekum) | qekum = 100 (*ekum) | ||
mihakun = 200 | |||
kirugkun = 300 | |||
lawagkun = 400 | |||
marsekun = 500 | |||
xaikun = 600 | |||
saspikun = 700 | |||
rassukun = 800 | |||
vaþerassukun = 900 | |||
melja = 1,000 | melja = 1,000 | ||
melljan = 1,000,000 | melljan = 1,000,000 | ||
melja vaþerassukun kirumpaje marse = 1965 | |||
5)Ordinal numerals are indicated with the equative case: | |||
EG: | |||
simpaje vaþe kespet | |||
= the twenty-first month | |||
sin-paje vaþe kespe-t | |||
EQU-twenty one month-PL | |||
===Verbal Morphology=== | ===Verbal Morphology=== | ||